Hold decades of wisdom in your hands with the long-anticipated how-to book, TAKEOVER! A Human Rights Approach to Housing.
Cheri Honkala and the entire Poor People’s Army are finally sharing their secrets for reclaiming abandoned government-owned housing, making it safe, and helping homeless families move in. Takeover homes are a survival tactic that provide families with emergency housing on their own terms. Takeovers are also living political protests that condemn the oppression of those who fall through the gaping holes in government services. After thirty years of trial-and-error in Philadelphia and throughout the US, the Poor People’s Army is ready to share their expertise with people all over the world who are asserting their human right to housing – without waiting for a rigged system to save them.
Advance praise for TAKEOVER:
“we can always trust the Poor People’s Army to tell us the truth and speak the truth to power. All activists who care about poverty should read this book.”
-Loretta Ross, Professor at Smith College in the Program for the Study of Women and Gender, activist and pioneer in human rights
“This publication is not just a guide on housing struggles but a historical and theoretical rearticulation of the meaning and evolution of human rights. Combining theory with years of frontline practice, it captures the fact that human rights must emerge from and ultimately will be protected and advanced by the organized people themselves.”
-Ajamu Baraka, Black Alliance for Peace, international human rights pioneer, Green Party nominee for Vice President (2016)
“This book shouldn’t have to exist but I’m glad it does for people who are being crushed and killed by poverty in America. My mother has crafted a radical and powerful manual showing people how to save their lives, the lives of their children, and anyone else being brutalized by capitalism and fake democracy. This book wakes up sleeping souls to remember the power of the people will never be defeated.”
-Mark Webber, actor, filmmaker, formerly homeless son of Cheri Honkala
BUY A SOLIDARITY COPY FOR A POOR PERSON TODAY!
On the product page, you have two purchase options. Consider purchasing one or more “solidarity copies,” which we will put aside for poor people who cannot afford to buy one. Buying solidarity copies along with your own order will allow us to distribute this guide for free to people who need it, expanding our movement by empowering the leadership of the true experts: people who are poor and/or homeless.
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